The fight was changed to a six round exhibition, the boxing org. would not allow such a joke fight to happen...............
It has nothing to do with it being a joke fight or not, he can't have any official interim fight before taking on Parker because the WBO would take away his mandatory status. http://www.boxingnewsonline.net/hug...ghting-before-joseph-parker-world-title-shot/
I find it hard to care about the Parker fight seeing as we know something will end up happening beforehand to call the fight off.